Toni Bowers
Conducting employee performance reviews can be arduous. Depending on the style of your company, there can be a lot of process work involved that can be time consuming, especially when you have several staffers to evaluate. There’s also the emotional issue of how to deliver the news to an employee when his or her work is subpar. Read the rest of this entry »
Benny Sisko
Getting promoted into a CIO role is exciting… until you need to start managing people! Benny Sisko provides you with six tips for being successful with your new staff.
For the new CIO, assuming responsibility for a staff can sometimes seem like a daunting challenge, especially if you’ve come up through the IT ranks. While there are certainly many ways to screw it up, there are also many ways to succeed. Here are six tips gleaned from my own sometimes painfully acquired experience. Read the rest of this entry »
Jay Rollins
Keeping up with the sheer volume of telecommunications bills — not to mention trying to make sense of all the charges — can be maddening. Learn how to cut these expenses.
For larger enterprises, one of the biggest impacts you can make to your operating budget is to get your telecommunications expenses in-line. Telecommunications bills are some of the most confusing bills to read and interpret and even more difficult to get consistent and predictable. Here are strategies you can use to reduce the insanity. Read the rest of this entry »
John McKee
This year is going to be tough. The forecasters are all over the place about the outlook.
Which indicators you use in your planning – economic growth, profit levels, unemployment rates, commodity prices, the value of the dollar, or others – how you see 2010 may be very different from the person right next to you. We are in a period of uncertainty. You can expect to face continual demands on your leadership and management skills. Some leaders will fail; they won’t be up to the demands. Others will shine and may look back on 2010 at a year that really fueled their career trajectory. Read the rest of this entry »
Almost all of us—even if we don’t do it consciously—look early in an essay for a one- or two-sentence condensation of the argument or analysis that is to follow. We refer to that condensation as a thesis statement.
This handout describes what a thesis statement is, how thesis statements work in your writing, and how you can discover or refine one for your draft.
Writing in college often takes the form of persuasion—convincing others that you have an interesting, logical point of view on the subject you are studying. Persuasion is a skill you practice regularly in your daily life. You persuade your roommate to clean up, your parents to let you borrow the car, your friend to vote for your favorite candidate or policy. In college, course assignments often ask you to make a persuasive case in writing. You are asked to convince your reader of your point of view. This form of persuasion, often called academic argument, follows a predictable pattern in writing. After a brief introduction of your topic, you state your point of view on the topic directly and often in one sentence. This sentence is the thesis statement, and it serves as a summary of the argument you’ll make in the rest of your paper Read the rest of this entry »
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Public speaking is a common source of stress for everyone. Many of us would like to avoid this problem entirely, but this is hard to do. Whether we work alone or with large numbers of people, eventually we will need to speak in public to get certain tasks accomplished. And if we want to be leaders or achieve anything meaningful in our lives, we will often need to speak to groups, large and small, to be successful.
The truth about public speaking, however, is IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE STRESSFUL! If you correctly understand the hidden causes of public speaking stress, and if you keep just a few key principles in mind, speaking in public will soon become an invigorating and satisfying experience for you. Read the rest of this entry »
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Groups go through five phases of development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and ending or transforming. The phases usually follow in order, but at times, groups find they must go back to an earlier phase to repeat a process. Read the rest of this entry »
Abraham Maslow
If motivation is driven by the existence of unsatisfied needs, then it is worthwhile for a manager to understand which needs are the more important for individual employees. In this regard, Abraham Maslow developed a model in which basic, low-level needs such as physiological requirements and safety must be satisfied before higher-level needs such as self-fulfillment are pursued. In this hierarchical model, when a need is mostly satisfied it no longer motivates and the next higher need takes its place. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is shown in the following diagram Read the rest of this entry »